DATABANK STRUCTURE AND DISPLAY CONVENTIONS

Databank Structure

• Each entry in the Table of Contents leads you to an EXAMPLE PAGE, which contains a list of examples, usually all manifesting a particular SINGLE METAPHOR.

• Most examples in the example pages are annotated with links of the form [[Speech: source]], [[Text: source]] or [[Text: source p. ...page numbers...]]. These links currently do not go anywhere, but ultimately they will go to files identifying the sources of examples and containing fuller versions of the examples. IF YOU WISH TO KNOW THE SOURCE OF A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE, PLEASE CONTACT ME.

• When metaphor M1 is a SPECIAL CASE of metaphor M2 (i.e., manifestations of the former are also manifestations of the latter), the examples for M1 are generally not included in the example page for M2.

Display Conventions in Examples

• The most important phrases in an example in the EXAMPLE page for a metaphor, from the point of view of exhibiting that particular metaphor, are bracketed as follows: (* ... *). Note that:
  • Usually, the bracketed chunk has been put into upper case to aid visibility.

  • A lower-case chunk bracketed by (* ... *) is usually only of subordinate interest, and may not even manifest a metaphor (or metonymy). An exception is that in examples of Ideas as Internal Utterances the quoted ``speech'', if any, is not usually put into upper case.

  • Sometimes a bracketed chunk is best thought of as a continuation of the previous one. In that case, the previous one ends with *..) and the current one starts with (..*

• [NP] means new paragraph in the original text (or end of paragraph, though sometimes [EP] is used instead to indicate a paragraph end).

• Don't be surprised to see annotations that look obscure. For instance, there are many that say ``zeugma-avoidance.'' Such annotations date from when the databank was a private resource. I'd be happy to explain them on request.